Kumichiro Asaka

Kumichiro Asaka was a Field Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army who commanded the Kwantung Theater Army HQ during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Biography
Kumichiro Asaka was a Japanese general who was drilled with offensive doctrine, and he adopted this strategy as his own style of command. On 5 February 1936, he was promoted to Field Marshal and given command of the Kwantung Theater Army HQ in Dalian, and he was supplied from the city of Hamhung in Korea. Asaka was the commander of all Japanese forces in China up to the Second Sino-Japanese War, and he was in command of an army group, 6 armies, and 3 divisions of troops. Asaka oversaw the crushing of the Shanxi Clique of Yan Xishan and the ensuing invasion of northern China, and the Kwantung Army would become the most prestigious Japanese command.